Rebecca Latimer Felton

Rebecca Latimer Felton (10 June 1835-24 January 1930) was a US Senator from Georgia (D) from 21 to 22 November 1922, succeeding Thomas E. Watson and preceding Walter F. George. She was the first woman to serve in the Senate, despite only serving for one day.

Biography
Rebecca Latimer Felton was born in Decatur, Georgia in 1835, and she joined the Woman's Christian Temperance Union in 1886. She advocated for prison reform, women's suffrage, and educational modernization, although she was also a white nationalist and slave owner who spoke in favor of lynching. By 1915, she was championing a feminist program that ranged from Prohibition to equal pay for equal work. As the most prominent woman in Georgia during the era of progressivism in America, she was appointed to serve one day in the US Senate on 21-22 November 1922 following Thomas E. Watson's death. She was the first woman to serve in the Senate, as well as the oldest freshman senator, as she was 87 years old at the time. She died in 1930.